Friday, December 10, 2010

Tutorial: A lined stocking with a cuff

Ok so this took me 2 days of staring at a stocking to figure out. My mind just doesn’t work in the turn it inside out then right side in then right side out and do the hokey pokey kind of way. So here’s a quickie tutorial mainly for my own sake so I remember how. This tutorial is only for how to finish the stocking...not make the quilted front and the pattern for the actual stocking. To get the stocking shape, I traced a store bought stocking from Target. ;)

Start with:

- the outside of the stocking, already sewn together with the back and turned right side out. (the front of my stocking is quilted with batting, the back has no batting)

- the lining of the stocking sewn together ( leave a 3” hole in the side for turning!) right sides in.

- fabric for the cuff

- a sewn tab of fabric for hanging tab

To figure out how wide to cut your cuff fabric….measure the width of the top of your stocking, double that number and add .5 inch for the seam allowance. For the length of the cuff I cut my fabric 9”…to give me a 4.25” finished folded cuff. So this piece was 9” x 16.5”

Sew together the 9” ends of the cuff piece, use a 1/4” seam allowance.

Turn the cuff right side out so its folded at the bottom and raw edges are at the top. It should make a tube you can stick the stocking in.

Stick the cuff on and around the top of the stocking, match the raw edges and pin. You can pin the tab onto the side now also.

Stick the whole thing into the lining. The stocking and lining should be right sides together.

Pin all of the raw edges together at the top (lining, 2 cuff edges, and stocking edges).

Sew all the way around the top. Make sure you catch all the layers (lining, cuff edges, stocking).

Turn the whole thing right side out using the hole left in the side of the lining.

Finish turning it inside out and sew up the hole in the side of the lining. Stuff the lining inside the stocking and fold the cuff down. Press the edges as needed.

When you’re done you’ll have a nicely lined cuff and stocking with no raw seams showing.

If you want to make these little double hourglass blocks I used my tutorial but changed the sizing of the template and the strips shown below:

I checked out that pattern from Thimble Blossoms yesterday and noticed that she used some batting in the middle. I was thinking about leaving it out (less bulk means more room for presents!) and it looks like you didn't use any. Do you feel like the stocking has enough body? Thanks for this great tutorial!

Awesome tutorial!!! Thanks so much for sharing your hard work. I have some Wee Wonderful Christmas elves that I embroidered 2 1/2 years ago that are waiting to be turned into stockings...this is giving me the push i needed!! :)

Thank you so much! I stared at tutorials yesterday and I get so confused with RST-jargon (without touching the actual project). Your photos were just enough detail for me to figure it out. Can't wait to make a stocking for myself. :)

You are so kind and thoughtful to provide us with another great tutorial and without a fee. You have given me many inspirations and I thank you. I wish you many blessings at this Christmas time and I look forward to being with you in this coming year.

What have you done! You made this absolutely awesome stockings and you posted tutorials!! Wahahahaaaa. They are so gorgeous that now I will have to make them!! Have to! Have to! Have to!! And I already have my sewing table piled with unfinished projects.

I haven't drooled over a tutorial for a long time. Absolutely awesome stockings. Ok, going to make them NOW :D

I have to say you posted this tutorial at just the right time!! I am like you and have a hard time figuring out which way to place things to flip and sew and all of that. I tend to need the seam ripper close by for projects like this. I have been really obsessed with wardrobe refashion ideas and recently got a brainstorm to make my own gray boots from wool felt...I wanted them lined and to have a cuff. I have debated for the last couple of days as I have been putting the boots together how I would go about it all. I just happened to type lining and rolled cuff into Google, thinking I would never find what I wanted and voila', up came your post and it was EXACTLY what I needed. Now I see you just posted this on Friday and I found it a day later...Thank you so very much!!!

I am so grateful that you posted this tutorial. I was pondering all the turning in and out in the pattern, but now it all makes perfect sense. Yay. Can't wait to finish off my stocking. Thanks so much.

These are my FAVORITE Christmas Stockings EVER!!! Thanks for sharing the stocking pattern you used and how you added your own special touch. I especially love the double hourglass one. It's my favorite. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hugs!

I have just made a stocking for each of my daughters, using your tutorial, and I am SO pleased with them! Thank you so much for sharing this online. The stockings are just wonderful, and I really hope my daughters treasure them for years like I still treasure the one my Mum made for me.

For some reason my stocking isn't coming out right. I have unpicked 3 times now and finally threw it against the wall. You line everything up (i.e. toes, heel) facing the same direction when you put right sides together, correct? When I flip the lining toe is facing a different direction than the outer fabric. I am so frustrated!

Hello there - just wanted to say thanks for this lovely tutorial. I wasn't nearly so organised as to be able to do a beautifully quilted front like yours, but I loved using the tutorial to make a stocking for my youngest this year.

Hello, what a neat tutorial and very well done! I loved it! I am in a stocking swap group where we are making a Christmas stocking (yes, I know its Jan>) LOL, and we are going to fill it all year with small gifts from all those that signed up! Sure Hope my chosen person likes her new stocking! Thanks to YOU, It is nicely lined! I had not ever lined a stocking before and was a little intimated to make one but you took that away, and I can make more now with confidence! Thanks so much!

I realize that it's May and Christmas is probably the furthest thing from everyone's minds, but I just had to leave a comment thanking you for such a wonderful tutorial. My puppy now has a Christmas stocking for this year! =)

What a great tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing with us. The stockings are so beautiful. You inspired me! I made one than I felt in love with them and made another 5! for my friends and family so I am ready for Christmas this year!

Thank you so much! I am totally confused with anything inside out or reversed/ upside down.... My usually smart brain goes totally blank and it really bothers me. I know this took a lot of time and really appreciate you sharing

Thank you so much! I am totally confused with anything inside out or reversed/ upside down.... My usually smart brain goes totally blank and it really bothers me. I know this took a lot of time and really appreciate you sharing

Three years after posting this tutorial...you are my lifesaver!! I was stuck in the lining hokie pokie and couldn't see how to do it right. Thanks for sharing your talent and the hard work you put into such straightforward tutorials. My family will be enjoying their Christmas stockings for a long time thanks to you!

I used your tutorial a couple years ago when I started making stockings for our family, but now that it's grown (and growing more!), I need to make more. I started panicking because I couldn't remember how to find that really great tutorial that I used in the first place. :) But, I found it. Thank you for such great help!

Thank you so much for posting this tutorial. I started a stocking for my grandson and left the instructions somewhere, It's December 23rd, and here I am trying to figure out the inside out, outside in, hokey pokey! And there it is-the instructions I need! thanks again!

I made three stockings this year with your pattern! It was my first sewing project and they turned out well. I would appreciate in the future more instruction about when to press seams. They turned out great though! Thanks so much!!

Allison, once again you are a godsend! Thank you so much for posting this. I have been wanting to make some cuffed stockings for years but I kept getting hung up about how to manage the lining and the cuff with all seams hidden. No I have no more excuses! By the way, I love it when I search on Pinterest for ideas and Pinterest sends me to a blog I already follow. :-)

Thank you thank you so very much for the tutorial for the lined stocking. I just finished one and it turned out great. I have made quite a few in the past and always struggled a bit with my cuffs, this worked so well.Really I'm so glad I found it.

Hi Allison, I just followed your tutorial to make a stocking for our little boy. I had never made a lined stocking with a cuff before and probably never would have figured it out. . .but it turned out perfectly when I followed your instructions. Thank you SO much!

Our quilt guild makes Christmas stockings for a few of the local Assistance Ministries. My Bee makes about 75 each year, and we have the process down pat. Here is a link to the stocking pattern we use, and some brief instructions.